It’s Been A While…

So much for my effort to have something to write about every day.  I haven’t done so well with that! Lots of stuff has happened since I last wrote…

• Mom & Dad & Reggie came to visit me!  We had lots of fun (at least I think so…).  We did some shopping, some bike-riding, had Cajun boil at Plantation, played games…  Dogs are funny.  Reggie’s pretty wimpy about going outside with the “real dogs.”  But – you get a toy out, and Grover’s the big pansy.  He’ll go chase down the toy, but as soon as Reggie gets near, he just gives it up.
• Trina asked me to sing at her wedding! 
• I had my second golf lesson.  Wow.  I can hit the same distance (approximately 40 yards) with either my driver or my 8-iron.  The big compliment I got at this lesson… “You know, with you, we’re really starting from scratch!  We don’t have to try to break any of your bad habits, since you haven’t developed them yet!”  Ugh.  The big goal for me for the next lesson is to just be able to hit the ball consistently.
• I started testing Stormy’s glucose level at home.  He’s such a good patient – he just sits and takes whatever I have to do to him.  Right now, he’s getting stabbed with sharp needles at least 4 times a day – 2 insulin injections and at least 2 glucose tests.  I’d read that human glucose monitors can kind of skew the results of dog blood, so Tina suggested testing Grover’s blood to see how it compares… thank goodness Grover’s not the diabetic dog… He’s much less… er… patient than Storm.  I can’t imagine if I had to do this to the cat!
• I baked a coffee cake.  Yum!
• I used the self-cleaning feature on the oven.  Not thinking very hard about this, I did it on one of those gorgeous 80 degree days we had recently, heating the house up to approximately 118 degrees… But the oven looks great!